You have to be older than 60 to remember many of these events and milestones!

More Memories — by Jon Aceto, December 2010

4. Reggie’s Kiddie Land as well, with mini roller coaster after the roller rink “burned down”

5. Skating on Root River above Horlick’s Dam where there was also another Kiddie Land on Rapids Drive.

6. Don’t forget the Granada off Douglas Ave on Charles or the Rex which became a bowling alley on Main. The Venetian and Uptown had Live Wurlitzer Organs played during intermission for the Saturday Kiddie shows –$0.25 for 3-4 serials (Lash LaRue, Flash Gordon, King of the Rocket men), lots of cartoons, and a cowboy movie—what a deal. A kid with 50 cents could take the bus, see the show, buy popcorn (Maybe jujubes or Blackjack gum?) and ride back home.

7. I recall WRAC’s Saturday program being called “The Melody Nuthouse” I appeared on it one day in about 1953. The crazy MC’s ‘sold’ me the program.

10. Zahn’s had elevator operators, “Going up!”

16. Farmer’s market on West & Marquette Saturdays in the summer.

18, “Number playeeze.”

19. Skating on the Zoo pond in winter.

22. I think his name was Froseth.

24. Metroliners gave you a transfer for Chicago and Milwaukee public transportation. I used to go to Milwaukee to see the Braves. The State Street Trolley, yeah, trolley, took us to County Stadium.

There was also a tiled tunnel connecting the N-bound & S-bound 400 stations (cool in summer) at the Northwestern station.

Locomotives on the Northwestern were soot and steam before diesels.

The NW crossing gates were pumped by hand by guys in elevated towers along the tracks 24/7.

28. Beside fishing off the piers, sometimes there was a jump off the pier into the harbor for an impromptu swim when they weren’t biting. (Add fishing for ‘crabs’ in Island park beforehand for bait for fishing: 10 cents of liver, some string and some patience). If you had a boat, you could fish off the Reef Lighthouse when it was still manned by the Coast Guard.

35. A note on Brusha’s: it had been my Grandfather’s (Sam) bar/restaurant/store; my parents ran the grocery store in the 1940’s there; he sold to the Brusha’s (we lived right next door).

46. Inside the building behind Old Abe was the Case Agricultural Museum..free..mostly Case implements produced by Jerome Increase’s company.

51. Smelt fishing off the jettees a Shoop park, too, in spring.

59. Homer Dary’s Pharmacy with Soda Counter (Red Cross Pharmacy on State Street and Pokorney’s had one, too) where you could get a copper mug of rootbeer for $0.10..or even better a “Suicide”…sugar rush, anyone? Woolworth’s also had a lunch counter (sandwiches = 50¢; malts = 25¢; banana split = 39¢; coke was a dime).

71. Mrs. Trumbull was the curator. She knew the provenence of every best deposits item in the NW corner room on the 1st floor, just past the switchboard operator. Free, too.

Memorial Drive used to be called casino games Forrest Street.

Other reminiscences:

Belle City Foundry…lots of work and pollution just south of Horlick Field. Used to watch the Belle City Belles play there (League of Their Own).

Hartman Trunk on Hamilton W of RR tracks made luggage—now a prison.

The Library moved from its old classic Carnegie building on Main and 7th to the lakefront location. You could go out on the terrace for a cig break

Lincoln Elementatry K-6 school wasn’t always a condo online slots.

The “Y” moved from 4th & Wisconsin to the lakefront in the ’60’s. Co-Rec sponsored swimming, games, dances when I was in high school.

Batten Field was Horlick Airport.

The Theater Guild Playhouse in the abandoned church on High Street & Erie.

“Boy Scout Woods” off W High St. that extended from the Country Club to Lincoln Park. Hiking and day camping. Yeah, swimmin’ in the River, too.

The Guild Galleries in Porters was understaffed. My classmates & I used to eat our lunches there in luxury.

I have been trying to think of this name for years. We saved and bought a coffee table and other things. They also had great candles!
Before it was The Loom of Denmark it was a National Tea Grocery Store. I remember shopping there with my parents.

they also brought in a fake elephant kids could climb on. In the early 70’s my stupid cousin had a lion cub in their basement on Spring where Ohio St. They really had all kinds of animals. The lion was given to the zoo in exchange for them not prosecuting my Aunt and Uncle after lion mauled a little girl next door. She was fine but they had to pay a lot of money.

Your Uncle died under some very suspicious circumstances.One of my dogs got in a fight with one of the 2 lions Rob shot it in Ladysmith
Where he moved. Boricon was the male lion that was donated to our zoo,
when I workad there, as the first female zookeeper. Rob was a compassioate man not a stupid one at all. God Bless him, he sacrificed a Magnificent lion, for a Great Dane!

I remember watching the Venetian Nights from the railing of Memorial hall, am I right that Lake Michigan came right up to there? The decorated boats were spectacular to this young girl, might have been 1948 ?

Does anyone know the name of the drive in out on 3or4? mile road and douglas ave in the 60’s-70’s?they served a ground beef mixture that looked like a corndog, would love to find a recipe. They served root beer in glasses